Gram guards the rooting juniperleaf.There’s a new pollinator garden on campus!!Very pleased at least one of the partridge pea seeds I sprinkled last year made it up.Paper wasps made a nest on the debris of the invasive clematis.A small lynx spider eats a flyJust noticed that the long true bugs have little flat pom poms on their antennae.A second individual. I think you have to see them from the right angle to get a good view of the antennae spots.DogA helpful cat saw this wasp (maybe a spider wasp?) In the aloe and knocked the pot over.I took it outside and shooed the friend off. No dinner in the house for it. Only cat.I spotted a plume moth hiding on rain barrel stand.Potatoes in straw bale getting big. Hope roots are too.
I learned today that spiderworts are self-incompatible, so these buds didn’t have any seeds in them. Oh well. It was worth a try! Thanks Mom for sending and prompting me to look this up! It explains why we only have the one. 🙃I repotted the aloe vera (not shown) and added some more dirt and another succulent to this pot, which lives inside in the entryway shelf.Milkweed beetle! It’s standing on a dayflower and moving over to a nightshade, though.Ashy Sunflower yet lives!!Linum rigidum from home still blooming. It’s annual so I hope it seeds!A different jumping spider.A lightning bug resting on a native poinsettia (Euphorbia) leaf.